I love fly fishing. I am an International Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Two Hand Casting Instructor with fifty years experience in fly fishing, casting and fly tying to share. Please feel free to send me an e-mail and I will tell you what I know. My areas of knowledge are in fly fishing and fly tying for North Eastern trout, Landlocked salmon and the experience of over thirty five rivers world wide fly casting to Atlantic Salmon.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

It is very rare for a completely new fly form to be credited to just one person. But in the case of Syd Glasso it is exactly what happened. Syd Glasso shared his Steelhead Spey style flies and the use of Saddle tips as Spey wings was born.

Although there seems to be no exacting list of patterns, as Mr. Glasso tied many variations of his flies, there are a number of patterns that are well known and in common use today.

A few are Black, Purple, Gold, Orange and Silver Heron. Sol Duc, Sol Duc Dark and Sol Duc Spey. Any steelhead river will be very honored to be fished with the work of Syd Glasso. I just think it is a great deal of fun and will be some of my go to flies in New York this November.